Helaletes
Helaletes Temporal range:
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H. nanus skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Helaletidae |
Genus: | †Helaletes Marsh, 1872 |
Species: | †H. nanus
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Binomial name | |
†Helaletes nanus Marsh, 1871
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Helaletes is an extinct perissodactyl closely related to tapirs. Fossils have been found in North America.
Taxonomy[]
The type species of Helaletes, H. nanus, is known from Bridgerian-age fossils in the western US.[1] Desmatotherium mongoliensis was previously referred to Helaletes, but Bai et al. (2017) found it distantly related to the H. nanus type species, while excluding the nominal species H. medius Qiu, 1987 from Helaletidae.[2]
References[]
Categories:
- Prehistoric tapirs
- Eocene odd-toed ungulates
- Eocene mammals of North America
- Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh
- Fossil taxa described in 1872
- Prehistoric odd-toed ungulate stubs